A review by maxycat
1984 by George Orwell

3.0

I actually found this book a little tough to get through. I’m obsessed with mid 20th cent literature and political writing so I assumed I’d love it. Truth is I found it kind of boring. No doubt it’s an awesome stretch of the imagination but also depressingly not too much of a stress for some living in other parts of the world. Mostly I found it a great insight into the anti communist movement that became popular a couple of decades later. As if you wouldn’t have been paranoid about the spread of communism given what some governments were able to achieve in controlling their citizens and manipulating political thought.